1/5/10

Whining and Musing

-If I don't know you or I haven't seen you in awhile, I have long hair. It looks ridiculous. Over the weekend, we played a drinking game that involved taking turns saying what other people have similar hair to mine. My favorite answer was Steve from Full House. Most answers were old hockey players or wrestlers, 80s movie stars and unattractive women.

-We We're Promised Jetpacks!

-I enjoy Scottish indie rock music way more than any person should.

-Listening to 610/97.5 the day after the Eagles get blown out by Dallas is amazing. Some guy went on a five minute tirade today about how Reid and McNabb are an "embarrassment to the city". There is a 97% chance this guy idolizes Buddy Ryan. Such an absurd fanbase. I think it has alot to do with how little Eagles losses bother me these days. Jack, Rush and I basically spent most of the second half Sunday cracking jokes and watching dogs jump into pools on ESPN2.

-You can't tell me watching TV isn't more pleasant without all these Christmas commercials. Unfortunately, only five months until they start again.

-College of Charleston beating North Carolina is just another reason on the long list of reasons college basketball is much better than the NBA. One could argue that college football is better than the NFL if that Boise/TCU game meant something. Boise gets to finish third or fourth! Hooray!

-When does the history channel officially change its name to "2012 Watch". About 75% of their programming is related to the belief that a people who ceased to exist as a civilization 300 years ago have properly assessed that the world is about to self-combust.

-Rudy is currently on. Overrated Notre Dame propaganda.

-I saw the phrases 200hate and 200swine today. That is funny to me.

-Finally, the man stops telling everyone to not do drugs, and just tells us how to do them right. My favorite tip is to prepare your drugs carefully.

-HBO is showing He's Just Not That Into You basically on a loop. I didn't know a movie with so many attractive women trying to get banged could be so awful and uninteresting.

-STEVE HOLT!

-Tucci just woke up, apparently just to lick herself. She then stood up and began circling around the spot she wanted to lay down. Randomly, she stopped, made eye contact with me and took a step forward. She then licked me right across the face. Thanks for that, dog.

-Deadspin recently had a post asking people to list the greatest sports event they attended in the aughts. I could probably write a book on my experiences at Game 5 of the 2008 World Series and the 2009 East Regional Final, probably with some mention to the 2003 NFC Championship Game, and why I cherish one more than the other. Someone get me a book agent.

-That post just led to me staring blankly into space for a good five minutes considering if I should start a blog basically detailing every memorable sports experience I had in the last ten years. It is a pretty extensive and impressive list. I then realized that I would get lazy after the first post and never post again.

-There was a time not too long ago that if an insanely rich heiress to a pharmaceutical fortune mysteriously disappeared and was found dead it would have been shocking. If she was engaged to a bi-sexual woman who had an MTV dating show it would have been even more shocking. In 2010? Seems kind of standard.

-I watched Revolutionary Road on HBO the other day. Still depressed.

-I read Infinite Jest the other month. Still blown away. And confused. Mostly confused. However, I think it says something amazing about such a long book that is so difficult to read that the first things I did after I finished it were a) re-read the first 50 pages then b) spend hours on the interwebz looking for others opinions.

-I listened to the new Vampire Weekend the other month. I like the last 4 tracks. Not sure of the first 6.

-Whenever their is an attractive woman on tv playing poker, my life seems a bit brighter.

-200swine, you will not be missed.